Posts by Sofie Bribiesca
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Stella at rest. Settled in for the night.
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to Nora Leggs,
No walking about got done at Point Chev
The cows over the back fence. Followed by the rainbow.
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Cow meets bird on a wire.
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Walk about on Taipa at sunset with Taipa river and bridge at the back of the surf club.
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My man and our dog on Taipa Beach.
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A fisherman and his dog on Taipa Beach
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Ultimately, we’re not seeing clear results from the behavioural campaigns (“How we’re drinking”, etc).
Parents could help here. The fact I experience is that parents know about , aid and abet preloading before their kids hit the street. Parents don't quite click that what appears to be a relatively "happy slightly tipsy" kid on their way to town , can become an "unhappy agro attention seeking kid" by the time a shared taxi gets them there.
Police need to address that many yoof are enjoying the one and only vice that is legal whilst knowing about all the other stuff that achieves a great outcome, albeit illegal. Society says it's ok to get drunk. Society says here's a number, we can measure by. There has been no education or understanding as to how alcohol gets one to that number.So, kids experiment and parents don't really judge because they passed their test of experimentation, or not, ((and those ones are our statistics) . Like anything, we have success and failure. Alcohol is no different.
For crying out loud , can't we accept not everyone can handle alcohol successfully? Given a choice (and I know pot smokers), not handling alcohol is a no brainer for them so how about we accept that a variation of substance could help a mature society be just that. The vomit etc, when I cleaned the Powerstation for a job, was just a night out with drunks there. Booze spilled, faces spilled, incapacity was rife. Now, I'll step over it. Now, I don't go where it is. Nothing has changed, except there used to be toilets in and around Q St. So we reap what we sow. How about we address our inability to educate our kids? The Police need to show a community spirit.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Russell Brown,
If you’re going to be angry at anyone, it might as well be God.
Well back in 2008 I got angry that we got a National govt. Closest it got to god was me screaming " Jesus F... Christ!
Now I send emails complaining about whatever it is they plan to do to us ,that I don't like. As you can imagine (please do) I email the smarmy lot every week. -
Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Matthew Poole,
You’re welcome to do an OIA request to find out if they meet your criteria for impartiality.
Nah, my experience with my complaint has given me an experience I don't wish to have again. As I said, it's easier to avoid them.
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Hard News: Drunk Town, in reply to Matthew Poole,
The IPCA is quite willing to administratively crack heads,
What's the stats on that? How many complaints are upheld? How many are "Police acted appropriately?" How many complaints for brown people are upheld?Does it help your complaint if they know the colour of your skin first?
I am well aware of RB's mates treatment by cops because it happens to me. It has been consistent since I was about 16. Now, not so much because it's just easier to avoid the police and handle situations without them. I cant say I have ever been really helped by a policeman. It sucks. It's blatantly racist. Try it yourself sometime, are you of a brown persuasion because that is the requisite and I bet there are more complaints where police "acted appropriately" if your skin is brown or not white.
